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On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, geordzilla via linuxadmin-l wrote:
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> I've got a large file I'm editing using vi, and want to write out
> bits of this file into separate files. How do I do this in vi? Or is
> there any other way to do this other than using vi? Tanx y'all.

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If there's a consistent way to tell which bits you want to
extract, you can write a script to do it (or, probably, a macro in
vi).